Word: supermarketeers
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...this week. The same movie opens. And the main thing that strikes you is how irrelevant it is to your current worries, which after weeks of agitated Washington spinning, concern the apparently lively possibility of a terrorist blowing up himself and your supermarket. Or possibly your apartment building. Or the Brooklyn Bridge just as you decide to take your morning constitutional on it. You exit this film wondering if it should have been retitled: "The Sum of all Former Fears...
...weeks ago, Pay By Touch was launched at the Thriftway supermarket in west Seattle. From now on, registered customers need only place a finger on a small scanner to cart off as many groceries as they want. Developed by Indivos, a consumer biometric company based in Oakland, Calif., Pay By Touch may be the best thing since the express-checkout lane. It allows shoppers to authorize credit-card and bank payments using a fingerprint, a copy of which they have placed on file. "People like it for the same reason they like speed passes at gas pumps--mobility and speed...
...heads it, but beneath his now hallowed name a struggle for power is likely. No. 2 on the list, Joao Varela, whose parents immigrated from Cape Verde, is considered too young at 27 to lead the party in parliament. Winny de Jong, 43, a consumer advocate for a Dutch supermarket trade association, has the support of many party leaders, but others seem ready to back Mat Herben, 49, a journalist who, as he says, "wrote Pim's speeches and listened to so many interviews that I can dream his response to anything...
...defibrillators kept handy in case of cardiac arrest, the addicts were given MRIs and monitored for changes in heart rate and blood pressure. The subjects walked out of the hospital with some information on drug addiction, their anonymity and a gift certificate for $260 to a supermarket in exchange for a promise not to use any more cocaine that...
...bomb outside a luxury hotel in Jerusalem in December, killing himself and injuring two others. He is even a she. Ayat Akhras, 18, was a straight-A student, just months away from graduation and then marriage. On March 29, she killed herself and two others outside a Jerusalem supermarket. Volunteers such as these are coming forward faster than militant leaders can strap an explosive belt around their waist and send them off to kill...